2. Universal adult suffrage
for all citizens (with exceptions for restrictions that states may legitimately place on citizens as sanctions for criminal
offenses).

3. Regularly contested
elections conducted in conditions of ballot secrecy, reasonable ballot security, and the absence of massive voter fraud that
yields results that are unrepresentative of the public will.

4. Significant public
access of major political parties to the electorate through the media and through generally open political campaigning.

Additional Note:
The presence of certain irregularities during the electoral process does not automatically disqualify a country from being
designated an electoral democracy. A country cannot be an electoral democracy if significant authority for national decisions
resides in the hands of an unelected power, whether a monarch or a foreign or international authority. A country is removed
from the ranks of electoral democracies if its last national elections were not sufficiently free or fair, or if changes in
law significantly eroded the public's opportunity for electoral choice.